WMSE Food Slam with live auction is Sept. 13

More than 25 restaurants and other vendors will be dishing up samples at this year’s Food Slam to benefit WMSE-FM (91.7), from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday.

It takes place in the Grohmann Museum on the Milwaukee School of Engineering campus, 1000 N. Broadway. Food Slam guests can view the museum’s art collection focused on the evolution of human work, including the rooftop statues.

The Food Slam will have both a silent and live auction. Bid items include experiences such as a tour of the Harley-Davidson Museum with the curator and a pizza party at a historic Milwaukee firehouse, as well as goods and services.

Advance tickets are $40 and are available online or at the radio station’s studios, 820 N. Milwaukee St. Tickets at the door will be $50.

Meanwhile, in another fundraiser for the station, special burgers are being sold through Friday at Honeypie Cafe, 2643 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.; Palomino Bar, 2491 S. Superior St.; and Comet Cafe, 1947 N. Farwell Ave. The station gets $2 from the sale of each burger.

Six burgers that spin off their names from Milwaukee bands are on the menus; half are meatless. Honeypie, for example, has the Call Meat Lightning (a burger topped with chili con carne, pepper jack cheese and fried jalapenos) and Chickpea Flambeau (felafel patty topped with tabbouleh salad and lemon tahini dressing).

About Carol Deptolla

Carol Deptolla is the Journal Sentinel dining critic. She also reports on restaurants, bars and other food- and drink-related businesses.